Eben King wrote:
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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>
>>Chad Perrin wrote:
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>
>>>Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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>
>>>>Starting with Red Hat CL4 (Fedora Core 2-4/RHEL 4), Red Hat includes
>>>>XFCE as a standard GUI option. Shortly after Fedora Core 2 was
>>>>released, Alan Cox boasted he was running Fedora Core 2 on a 225MHz
>>>>IDT WinChip2 with 48MB of RAM.
>
>
>>>Last I checked, I seem to remember seeing some outrageously high RAM
>>>requirements for Fedora installation. Even the text-based install was
>>>listed in at least one location as requiring something like 96MB of
>>>RAM. If that's an accurate representation of the requirements, I'd
>>>like to know how he shoehorned Fedora into a system with only 48MB of
>>>RAM.
>
>
>>Red Hat purposely overstates for the "worst possibility."
>>Even 24MB is definitely doable if swap is created.
>
>
> He may have removed the hard drive and done the install on a different
> machine. I've done that.
>
That was my first thought. I didn't want to bias the answers by
suggesting it myself, though.
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